New Delhi: Suspecting the possibility of sabotage in the recent spate of train derailments, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu has written to Home Minister Rajnath Singh seeking a detailed probe by the National Investigating Agency into the incidents. In a letter dated January 23 to the Home Minister

New Delhi, Jan 25 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday described the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as one of India’s “most valued partners and a close friend in an important region of the world”. In his press statement after holding talks with Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme

New Delhi: In a veiled attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi today said India becoming a Republic on January 26, 1950 meant that it would not accept whims of any emperor nor a dictator. In his Republic Day message greeting countrymen, the Congress Vice President also made an obliqu

A high alert has been sounded on the eve of Republic Day on Thursday in the two Telugu speaking States of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. The alert followed in the wake of warning by terrorist groups. The IB has warned that there was possibility of the SIMI and IM groups activate sleeper cells. Fol

The government has decided to bring the entire organ transplant scenario in the State — live and deceased donor organ transplants happening in both public and private sector hospitals — under the scanner, in an attempt to bring better accountability and transparency to the process of organ donation.

New Delhi: BJP General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya on Tuesday slammed Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, even comparing him to underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, after the death of a person at the Vadodara railway station during the promotional tour of the actor’s movie “Raees”. One man — social

Mumbai: The ED on Tuesday questioned officials of IRF, an NGO headed by controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik, as part of its money laundering probe against them. Agency officials said they had summoned representatives of Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) last week and following their depos

New Delhi: Raising the Ram Temple issue ahead of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, state BJP Chief Keshav Prasad Maurya on Tuesday said that a “grand” Ram Temple will be built in Ayodhya after the polls. “It’s not an election issue for us. It’s a matter of faith,” he told media. Commenting

Kolkata: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has infused a lot of “personal energy” into his diplomacy, but it’s difficult to push the Make in India initiative abroad while promoting “Hate in India” at home, says former central minister Shashi Tharoor. According to the seasoned diplomat, Modi’s foreign

MUMBAI: A special NIA court on Thursday allowed an accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case to file his nomination papers for the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. “Accused Major (retd) Ramesh Upadhyay had last week moved the court seeking permission to fill his nomination form which the court h

HYDERABAD: Syed Zaker Raheem, a Hyderabad man who was allegedly involved in a conspiracy to assassinate Hindu right-wing leaders, has been given permanent exit from Saudi Arabia and was brought to Hyderabad on Friday. According to reports, Raheem was among those who organised meetings of Indian M

CHENNAI:  Tamil Nadu has gotten much closer to ending a ban on the bull-taming sport of Jallikattu: an executive order or ordinance by the state which allows Jallikattu has been cleared by the centre and sent to President Pranab Mukherjee for his assent. Thousands of protestors gathered at Chen

Kolkata: Demanding solution to the demonetisation problems and recovery of bad loans, bank employees’ and officers’ unions on Friday called for an all-India strike on February 7. In a joint statement, the All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA), All India Bank Officers Association (AIBOA) an

New Delhi [India]: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday issued summons to controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik and his organization Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). The foundation had first come under the scanner after the terrori

The Centre on Thursday appointed Delhi Police Commissioner Alok Verma as the new CBI Director. Hours later, the Congress called it a “wrong selection”. Leader of the Congress in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, who is a part of the three-member selection committee along with Prime Minister Narendra

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said he is glad that the Indian youth have not fallen into the trap of radicalisation and have successfully resisted extremist approaches. Interacting with a delegation of Muslim religious scholars, academicians, intellectuals and other eminent

Srinagar: Pakistan-based Mumbai attack mastermind Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi’s nephew Abu Musaib, one of the most wanted Lashkar-e-Toiba militants, was killed in a gunfight with security forces in a north Kashmir village on Thursday, police said. Musaib, who headed the Lashkar wing in Bandipore, was o

NEW DELHI: For the past three days, intelligence agencies and Delhi Police's Special Cell are trying to find a Delhi link to the Kanpur railway accident that killed 150 people in November 2016. Three men — Zia-ul-Haq, Shoaib and Zubair — are being grilled at the cell's headquarters at Lodhi Colon